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Things move fast in the tech publishing world and a number of blogs have risen to constantly outmaneuver established publishers and brands. Among the blogs, the competition is even greater, but it seems to be worth it as the biggest have readers in the millions and the revenue to match. It looks like Mashable, one of... |
7 January 2010
10:22 GMT |
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Facebook is without a doubt one of the most popular sites online at the moment; yet, it continues to grow at an increasing rate even as it enters a very select crowd of just a handful of sites with comparable audiences. The latest US numbers from comScore show that Facebook has managed to get pass the 100 million un... |
16 December 2009
11:51 GMT |
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AOL has just spun off from Time Warner but the hard times are just beginning at the company. The plan is to focus on content and a couple of core services and get rid of everything else. Rumors started about a month ago that it was looking to sell ICQ, the company's 'other' instant messenger, and now ... |
14 December 2009
04:42 GMT |
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AOL finally became a publicly traded, independent company earlier today when its shares became officially available on the NYSE. And, as its CEO, Tim Armstrong, rang the opening bell at the stock market, the company's homepage, Aol.com, introduced the new design revealed a couple of weeks ago. It's not much... |
10 December 2009
11:55 GMT |
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AOL is on the verge of a long-awaited spin-off from Time Warner and will officially begin trading as an independent company on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) later today. Shares have already begun trading, but AOL will officially be on its own in a few hours as the market opens. It's been a crazy decade for... |
10 December 2009
05:25 GMT |
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As AOL nears its spin off from Time Warner, which will be in a little over a week now, it's talking more and more about the future. So far, most plans haven't really been all that groundbreaking and the company has been saying for a while now that it wants to become a content powerhouse reaching into any n... |
30 November 2009
05:40 GMT |
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AOL is going through some rather painful changes, but changes that it has to make if it wants to survive. The biggest change, of course, will be spinning off from Time Warner to become a separate, publicly traded company, something that will happen in a couple of weeks or so. At the same time, it’s trying to r... |
23 November 2009
04:20 GMT |
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There are a lot of things happening at AOL as the once mighty Internet giant is going through some pretty tough restructuring. It's about to get separated from Time Warner as an independent company listed in the stock market. It's also trying to get rid off any business not crucial to its operation. And no... |
19 November 2009
11:01 GMT |
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AOL is already looking ahead of the upcoming split from Time Warner and is making plans to spin-off some non-essential proprieties to allow it to focus more on its new direction, moving away from services and more towards content. The rumor now is that it's looking to shed its ICQ instant messaging service and ... |
19 November 2009
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AOL is approaching its final moments at Time Warner, as the companies are heading towards the spin off revealed earlier this year. Time Warner has now officially put a date on when this is going to happen and as of December 10, 2009 AOL will begin to trade as an independent company on the stock market.... |
17 November 2009
07:19 GMT |
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The economy is still in a dire state and companies are firing people left and right but there are signs of recovery in some areas particularly in online advertising. After years and years of sustained growth, online advertising revenue actually declined in the first half of this year. But in the third quarter, the ma... |
12 November 2009
11:46 GMT |
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The expected layoffs at AOL are beginning today with a first small salvo. About 100 AOL employees will get the axe today as the company prepares for its spin-off from Time Warner and another massive wave of firings to come in the not-so-distant future. This is the first step of “Project Everst,” an effort... |
10 November 2009
10:29 GMT |
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AOL is going through some pretty big changes and with the impending spinoff from Time Warner trying times are ahead of the Internet company. Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong talked about some future plans and the company's greater emphasis on content. Armstrong wants the con... |
23 October 2009
10:56 GMT |
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Advertising Week is underway in New York and all the big players are there. Yahoo is expected to launch a huge marketing campaign there later today but AOL also had a big presence with AOL CEO Tim Armstrong himself answering several questions regarding the company's ongoing restructuring process but also the ove... |
22 September 2009
05:28 GMT |
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AOL is starting what looks to be a massive restructuring campaign. Several months after Tim Armstrong was brought in as CEO he finally got around to doing some changes in the company's lineup and he's starting at the top level, ousting Chief Operations Officer Kim Partoll and Senior Vice President of Search... |
16 September 2009
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AOL is continuing its reshaping in anticipation of the spin-off from media giant Time Warner with a new hire at the top level. Brad Garlinghouse, a former senior vice president at Yahoo, will join AOL as the head of the Internet and Mobile Communications. The division includes some of AOL's most valued and '... |
8 September 2009
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AOL is suing Advertise.com for trademark infringement, with the Internet giant claiming that the name and the design are very close to its own Advertising.com and Ad.com, while also offering very similar services. AOL believes that this could arise some confusion among customers, who may believe that Advertise.com is... |
19 August 2009
10:54 GMT |
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Despite being one of the largest Internet companies in the world, Google keeps on growing with some products getting faster adoption than others. Gmail has been around for five years now, or two if you count from the official public release, as before 2007 Google's email service was invitation only, but it'... |
17 August 2009
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AOL may be planning for a greater restructuring of its businesses but it's not quite there yet and, looking at the financial results for Q2 2009, it's not hard to see why Time Warner has decided to spin off the company. Revenue for the Internet giant dropped 24 percent year over year and dragging Time Warne... |
29 July 2009
11:19 GMT |
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The preparations for the AOL spin-off are going ahead as scheduled at Time Warner, with the media giant buying back Google's 5 percent share in the Internet company for $283 million. The deal was revealed in a regulatory SEC filing on Monday as part of the legal process for the spin-off. Google bought the 5 perc... |
28 July 2009
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AOL is trying to reinvent itself as a media platform with hundreds of niche products covering every Internet user's wishes. While still raking in large amounts of money from its dial-up business, a reportedly $1 billion yearly, that revenue source is expected to dwindle in the next few years. While also facing a... |
20 July 2009
05:23 GMT |
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AOL announced recently the availability of AIM for Windows Mobile 2.0 Beta. Mobile phone users who would like to enjoy all the features that the desktop PC version of the solution can offer while still benefiting from mobility can now download the 2.0.9.1 beta version of the application to see what novelties have bee... |
7 July 2009
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Whether it's the result of the recent Time Warner-AOL split or just the natural trend, new data released by the latter company shows some very positive results for both its homepage as well as some of its many online ventures. According to data from comScore, AOL.com has risen to 40.6 unique visitors in May 2009... |
19 June 2009
06:00 GMT |
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AOL has announced the acquisition of two businesses to help it bring a local online experience to its users, namely Patch Media Corporation and Going, Inc., which already offer services with a local focus. The former is a local news and information platform while the latter provides local content and self-service app... |
12 June 2009
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Other companies offering instant messaging services and clients have started blocking access of citizens in countries under trade embargo by the United States after Microsoft announced a similar move recently. Countries currently affected are Cuba, Syria, Iran, Sudan and North Korea, all of which are under trade emba... |
1 June 2009
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Time Warner has finally decided to spin off AOL after years of speculation, a move that was announced earlier in the week and whose final details are now official. Time Warner originally bought AOL as an online outlet for its other divisions but it hasn't worked out as planed. AOL will be spun off in a separate ... |
29 May 2009
07:08 GMT |
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AOL's MediaGlow has announced the availability of a free Pixcetera application in the App Store. By allowing users to experience photography in a variety of categories, including news, celebrities, lifestyle and nature, right on their device, the app aims to replicate the functionality of the Pixcetera.com site.... |
6 May 2009
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Not even a day into the release of version 1.3.3 RC2, Adium is at its final 1.3.3 release adding tons of changes, major and small, as well as bug fixes. Adium, the popular IM app for Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard, is free to download and use for as long as you wish.According to the changelog for Adium 1.3.3, major chang... |
20 February 2009
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AOL has released its popular IM client for Mac users. Currently at its first beta version for the Macintosh platform, the instant-messaging client boasts features like Friendly Names, multi-point file sharing, tabbed IM conversations, AIM Blast groups and more.Released shortly after the iPhone version kicked off, &ld... |
30 September 2008
10:35 GMT |
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If you've been dying to use AOL Mail, AIM and ICQ on your BlackBerry smartphone (assuming you own one), you should be thrilled to find out that RIM has partnered with AOL in order to embed these features into the Canadian-made handsets. From now on, fans of AIM and ICQ, the popular instant messaging applica... |
10 September 2008
05:11 GMT |
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AOL has announced the availability of the Platform-A mobile version of the ad-serving platform and network for iPhone. Offered through Third Screen Media, the solution detects and delivers optimized ads on iPhones browsing the Web.Third Screen Media is Platform-A’s mobile ad-serving platform and network that en... |
3 September 2008
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Socialthing!, a website that promises to offer social networking fans quite a revolutionary experience, announced that it had been acquired by AOL, although the transaction had not yet been completed. Socialthing! is a virtual place where people can stay in touch with their friends who are subscribers to other websit... |
15 August 2008
04:19 GMT |
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A 24-year-old man from Connecticut was convicted to seven years in prison for scamming AOL subscribers, which resulted in damages in excess of $400,000. Over 250 people are reported to have lost important amounts of money because of several phishing attacks coordinated by Dolan. The seven-year penalty was the maximum... |
14 August 2008
05:48 GMT |
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People don't know much about Internet privacy, although they do claim to be very careful about what they divulge when registering to certain websites or answering questionnaires. A study conducted by AOL, which included research, questioning various managers and asking for the opinion of 1,000 respondents, led t... |
12 August 2008
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AOL's Advertising.com along with the other operators owned by the company have proven to be the most efficient Internet advertising platform as a whole, as it reached 89.7% of the total Internet audience in the U.S. in June 2008. A comScore study reveals that, as AOL claims, no other ad provider managed to touch... |
25 July 2008
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A sentence has been issued in the case of the Brooklyn man who, for a period of seven days in 2005, from the 17th to the 23rd of August, managed to spam 1.2 million AOL users. The spammer's name is Adam Vitale, and he was handed 30 months of incarceration time, as well as having to pay AOL $180,000.Judge Denny C... |
16 July 2008
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America's top 10 web brands for June starts with Google and ends with Apple. The ranking was made according to the number of unique users in the U.S. that visited certain pages, and was disclosed by Nielsen Ratings. Google has all the reasons to show off in front of its competitors, since its properties attracte... |
15 July 2008
10:39 GMT |
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ADTECH, part of AOL's online advertising business, has just attracted a top-notch partner. Gannett, an international company that operates 23 TV stations and publishes USA Today, along with other 84 newspapers, has chosen AOL's services to display ads on online properties. So far, the two partners have repl... |
14 July 2008
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Families who have children know that, in the late summer, a large amount of the family's finances is already assigned to the return of the youngsters to school. While the back-to-school purchases are usually made via the traditional way, by going to a supermarket and picking out the necessary school supplies, re... |
11 July 2008
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Out of the 3.7 billion searches conducted in Germany in May 2008, an average of 80.5% was performed with Google sites. Google's supremacy puts to shame the rest of the top ten sites. eBay is second, with 6.2% of the market share, followed by a German property, ProSiebenSat1, whose sites account for 2.4% of the p... |
9 July 2008
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AOL has always been a company focused on the evolution of its products, so new regional versions of its services are announced every once in a while. Today, the New York-based company has announced the availability of three new regional versions of AOL Video, namely the Canadian, Indian and Taiwanese video portals. M... |
22 May 2008
17:46 GMT |
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For the first time in years, AOL is specifically targeting the Mac userbase with the first release of "a brand new, all-in-one web software, now available for download: AOL Desktop for Mac." A fresh web browser that works similarly to Safari, a new AOL IM client and tabbed view are just a few of the new features avai... |
9 May 2008
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Cellufun announced that it will provide, from now on, free mobile games for AOL's new mobile gaming portal. This is great news for all mobile gamers, but also for Cellufun, fresh winner of the 2008 Global Mobile Award for the Best Mobile Game (received at MWC 2008), with one of it latest titles: Call of the Phar... |
31 March 2008
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Old school Internet users cannot but sigh when reminiscing about the good times they had using the now-AOL-owned Netscape. As of the first of March, the legendary Netscape Navigator browser is no longer receiving any kind of support, and its faithful users have been once again asked to consider Firefox and Flock for ... |
3 March 2008
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Yesterday AOL introduced Xdrive Desktop Lite, the Mac version for its online data storage service, Xdrive. This is the first time that Xdrive is ported to Mac. AOL says it was possible only by switching to Adobe AIR technology. Xdrive Desktop Lite is currently being offered as a public beta.What Xdrive basically doe... |
26 February 2008
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Yahoo! turned down Microsoft and is heading to a world of pain, should their shares value start dropping again. The past week, the Sunnyvale-based company and the team of advisers from Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers, that it hired for consultancy, have been trying hard to find an alternative that would set the shi... |
11 February 2008
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Time Warner's yearly and fourth fiscal quarter made it decide without very much trouble that it was about time to give the subscription business a well-deserved rest. It was a dying business ever since the early 2000s, but it was dragged along and, in turn, it dragged heavily every year. The split between the gr... |
7 February 2008
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AOL is having serious problems over the possibility of Yahoo becoming an integrating part of Microsoft, ad platform included. The deal would give the two a stand in the fight against Google, seeming more powerful and because of that cutting out the smaller ad-serving companies, such as Time Warner's AOL.It must... |
6 February 2008
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Time Warner's AOL was holding Yahoo!'s hand when it came to going down the profit slope, and joined the Sunnyvale-based company at about the same time it began its decline. Ever since it switched its strategy to advertising, it lost profit on a quarterly basis and the parent company isn't very thrilled... |
4 February 2008
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The 28th of December came bearing ill news for the Netscape users. That was the day that AOL decided to discontinue support for the legendary browser. The actual date that Netscape will be left to age gracefully and die is the first of February 2008, and if you look at the calendar, it's just around the corner.T... |
18 January 2008
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